What is recorded here

Fairy fort / earthen ringfort in Ballinderry (clonlonan By.) is a fairy fort or earthen ringfort in Ballinderry (clonlonan By.), County Westmeath, Ireland. This probable ringfort, which was reused as a landscape feature after 1700, appears on the 1837 edition Ordnance Survey six-inch map as a large subcircular-shaped earthwork measuring 65 metres east-west and 59 metres north-south. The monument is not depicted on the revised 1910 edition Ordnance Survey twenty-five-inch map, where the area is partially occupied by an irregular-shaped grove of trees on Ballinderry estate, and it remains visible as a subcircular-shaped cropmark on Digital Globe aerial photography.

Situated in undulating pasture. Depicted on the 1837 ed. OS 6-inch map as a large subcircular-shaped earthwork (overall dims. 65m E-W; 59m N-S). Not depicted on the revised 1910 ed. OS 25-inch map, on this map the area is partially occupied by an irregular-shaped grove of trees on Ballinderry estate. Monument is visible today as a subcircular-shaped cropmark on Digital Globe aerial photography. Probable ringfort that was reused as a landscape feature in the post 1700 period. Compiled by Alison McQueen, Vera Rahilly and Caimin O’Brien. Date of upload: 09 November 2019

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